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The Composition of Vinaya Chalisa |
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Prabhu Dayal Sharma was at the Luterey Hanuman temple when he met a clerk from
the Mathura treasury who told him about Baba and asked him to go for
his darshan. As Prabhu Dayal did not know Baba,
he did not
have any faith or reverence for him but went just to see him. When he
arrived, Baba asked him, "What is your name? Where do
you work?" No sooner had he replied than Baba asked him
to go. Prabhu Dayal wanted to stay longer, but Baba said, "I
have told you to go. Go now." He had Baba's darshan
for only about a minute.
As
Prabhu Dayal was crossing the threshold of the ashram on his way home,
he experienced an inexplicable celestial bliss and said spontaneously,
"Baba is a great being, not an ordinary man." He said that he felt as
if an electric current passed through his whole body. After that
incident he was not able to sleep for about a month and had to be
treated in a mental health hospital, for he almost lost his sanity. Yet
in that condition, and motivated by his darshan
with Baba, he composed the Vinaya Chalisa
(a prayer to Baba, considered so befitting, that it is now sung in all
of Baba's temples). He did not dare to take his composition to Baba
personally, so he posted it to him. When Baba received it, he threw it
away indifferently. Kalinath Kapoor picked it up out of the trash and
took it to Kanpur the next day to get it printed.
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